The federal government’s new “Technical Advisory Forum” on weather data, announced by parliamentary environment secretary Bob Baldwin last week, will “review and provide advice on Australia’s official…

What does Paraguay have to do with the global temperature record?
dany13/FlickrJanuary 28, 2015

An article in The Australian today has once again raised the question of why scientists, in trying to estimate how the global and regional surface temperatures of Earth may have changed over the past century…

Horses cool off during an Adelaide heatwave in January 2014.
AAP Image/David MariuzJanuary 6, 2015

2014 has been confirmed as Australia’s third-hottest year, capping off a record-breaking decade, according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s annual climate statement, released today. Seven of Australia’s…